从数字鸿沟到全球南方的数字正义:逆向数字融合的概念化
From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation
摘要:
传统上,人们从数字鸿沟或以排斥为核心概念的各种形式的数字不平等的角度来理解数字与不平等之间的联系。本文认为,随着全球南方进入数字参与的广度和深度不断增长的数字发展范式,排斥世界观已不再足够。借鉴有关长期贫困的发展研究文献中的想法,本文认为需要一个新概念:“不利的数字融合”,这意味着融入数字系统,使优势群体能够从另一个弱势群体的工作或资源中获取不成比例的价值。这就解释了为什么在数字发展模式中不平等现象持续存在--甚至加剧。为了帮助地面未来的研究和实践在这个问题上,本文归纳建立了一个概念模型的不利数字纳入三个主要组成部分集:过程,驱动程序,和不利的数字纳入的原因。本文最后提出了对未来研究和实践议程的思考,该议程旨在为全球南方提供数字正义:对目前塑造数字和不平等之间包容性联系的更广泛的权力组成部分进行必要的重新配置。
英文摘要:
The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and depth of digital engagement, an exclusion worldview is no longer sufficient. Drawing from ideas in the development studies literature on chronic poverty, the paper argues the need for a new concept: "adverse digital incorporation", meaning inclusion in a digital system that enables a more-advantaged group to extract disproportionate value from the work or resources of another, less-advantaged group. This explains why inequality persists - even grows - in a digital development paradigm. To help ground future research and practice on this issue, the paper inductively builds a conceptual model of adverse digital incorporation with three main component sets: the processes, the drivers, and the causes of adverse digital incorporation. The paper concludes with thoughts on a future research and practice agenda that seeks to deliver digital justice in the global South: a necessary reconfiguration of the broader components of power that currently shape the inclusionary connection between digital and inequality.
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